Songs for a 'Willy Night'?

Subject: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: The Admiral
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 10:50 AM

We held another successful 'Willy' theme night at Maidenhead Folk Club last night, 'Willy Night VI - Willy Comes Again'. It was only successful because a lot of people not only sang your standard 'Willy and Nancy' songs but also thought ingenuitively and imaginatively and produced items as such - Steven Fosters' 'Hard Times' for instance! I wondered what the virtual performers of Mudcat would have done? Songs, Tunes, Verse whatever!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Flash Company
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 11:03 AM

Remember hearing Artisan go into a long introduction about songs of the genre of young ladies falling for young men, the young man's name invariably being William, and having cited a number of well known songs, saying 'Here is one of the more obscure versions'.......

Met him on a Monday and my heart stood still,
Da do ron......etc!

It sounds marvellous done 'a capella'

FC

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 11:30 AM

The Downside of having a great time in Virginia is that I Missed the Maidenhead Willy Night ! Glad it went well without me !!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: The Sandman
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 12:46 PM

fancy: having a willy night, in Maidenhead.
Leadfingers in Virginia,lucky old Virginia,can you give me Virginia,s phone number.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Acorn4
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 01:17 PM

To My Wack Fol Diddle

'Twas on a Monday morning in the month of May
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
As I walk-ed out to frolic in the new mown hay,
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
Yeow, in the month of May
Yeow , in the new mown hay
Oh, what on earth would me old man say?
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day

He said his name was Willy, he'd a roving eye
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
He said "me lovely Nancy, does you fancy I?"
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
Yeow, a roving eye,
Yeow, does you fancy I?
I says this is a folk song so I've not much choice,
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day

He pick-ed me up at seven and to my surprise,
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
Dress-ed like a dogs dinner, couldn't believe my eyes,
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
Yeow, it was a dreadful scene,
Yeow, it shattered all my dreams,
He said "I'm a member of the local Morris team,"
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day

Well now I am a getting to the end of my song,
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
Cos me darling Willy to the wars has gone,
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
All along the livelong day,
Pale and wan I slowly fade away,
What if he comes home with his bells blown away
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day

I knew I should never 'ave played away
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day
I suppose I'll 'ave to dress myself in mans' array
To my wack fol diddle to my wack fol day

To tune of "Da Doo Ron Ron..."

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 03:47 PM

Will-ye no come back again!
and then the impotence song..."Long time have I been waiting for the coming of my love"
Or the vasectomy somg ,,,"here's the tender coming....."

I'll get me coat...
geoff t

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: GUEST,old git
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 03:50 PM

last guest was me!!

The Willy workshop will probably be on again at Cleethorpes this year (See other thread about Willy in songs)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Gurney
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 06:52 PM

Good Idea, but rude.
Long time ago, a bunch of us traddies did an impromptu workshop where each song had to have some reference to the one preceding it, even if vague. Not for the limited of repertoire.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 25 Apr 08 - 07:01 PM

"On the road again,
Just can't wait to get on the road again..."

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Lin

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Snuffy
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 02:42 PM

Duw, It's Hard

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 03:34 PM

Les Sullivan's Deadeye Sound - the first 2 words are "Hard on" and the chorus starts "Pull, boys, together, pull, boys pull, pull upon the mizzen and the fore....."

Kitty

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 03:40 PM

Oops, forgot the link . I also forgot that the second verse starts "we'll all hang together"... I'll just get my coat... Kitty

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 04:21 PM

Wrote and performed this a few years back to the tune of "Both sides the Tweed"...It went down quite well.



The water is deep and so wide,
I fear that I cannot cross o'er.
Nor have I the wings I might fly,
To be with my true love once more.
For Willie lives over the sea,
In the land of Van Diemen they say.
And I never will see my true love,
Unti--il my dying day.

Found guilty they took him away,
On His Majestys ship the good "Sire".
Although he is so far from me,
'Twill not kill this loves inner fire.
I'll go to that Van Diemens Land,
To find the true love I adore.
But I need of a handsome boatman,
To row me to that distant shore.

My true love shall see me again,
For there will I go to his side.
I will gather him close to my breast,
He will take me to be his own bride.
Though Van Diemens Land may be far,
As there it is so will I be.
I'll hold my true love again,
And he in his turn shall hold me.

Lyrics, Mike Hill (August 2004)
Tune, trad (Both Sides the Tweed)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 04:23 PM

I did have to alter the "I'll hold my Willie again" to 'true love' for obvious reasons.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Acorn4
Date: 26 Apr 08 - 04:59 PM

Lynn Heraud(I think!) had written a song about a man with a beer belly which goes along the lines of "It's many a long year since I've seen my Willie-Oh".

Might be quite good for your theme night if you can get hold of it (if you'll pardon the expression!)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Declan
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 04:16 AM

Les Barker has written a song on the subject. Starts off something like:

Farewell my dearest Roger, you are not the one for me,
For my name it is Nancy, and our love can never be,
No Henry Dick or Julian, Complete must be the ban,
For when your name is Nacy, then Willie is your man.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 06:37 AM

Declan - I've heard Rosie Longstaff sing the Les Barker song.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Acorn4
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 09:40 AM

I seem to remember the Les Barker contains the line:-

How can I do a thing,
With a Willy with no arms and legs and only half a ring?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Kiss Me Slow Slap Me Quick
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 12:25 PM

Penis in blue jeans?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 27 Apr 08 - 12:39 PM

Then there were the two homosexual ghosts, who kept putting the willies up each other.
Sorry, JohnB

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Snuffy
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 08:37 AM

Acorn4, the line is actually:

He'll expect me to be faithful. What reward does virtue bring?
A Willy with no arms and legs and only half a ring.

I really must start singing it again.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Kiss Me Slow Slap Me Quick
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 12:32 PM

From Maddy Prior & Tim Hart's Summer Solstice album .....Fly Up My Cock !!!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 12:47 PM

There's that bit from Lizzy Wan:

There is a child between my two sides,
Between my willy and eye...

And of coarse:

I went to market to buy a cock
And me cock did very well please me
Every time I fed me cock
I fed him all under a tree

And me cock went cock a cock a cock a doodle doo
And after every farmer's cock did my cock crow

Don't forget Celia Learning on the Spinet to Play, though you'll need three voices and a lot of practice.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Acorn4
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 01:33 PM

Snuffy,

Thanks for the correction on the LB. I heard Rosie sing it at Sidmouth and was trying to remember it from then -the funniest line in a hilarious spoof.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs for a 'Willy Night'?
From: Tradsinger
Date: 28 Apr 08 - 03:20 PM

Then there's the well-known folksong "Oh, have you seen my Willie-O" which as all MCs know is a version of the Incontinent Lover.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Tradsinger